Orly Taitz Lust

My feelings of affection for legendary lawyer/real estate agent/dentist Orly Taitz are well known.
I spend many of my days pining away for the possibility of sitting with the luminous Dr. Taitz exposing the Kenyan heritage of our do-nothing president. The fact that Obama has accomplished nothing (other than a continuation of Bush Era policies on [...]

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Greatest Of All Time

Once, my experience of goats was limited to the fairy tale from Norway. I was new to the world and amazed that the horned cartoon animals could actually eat tin cans.
Then, I got older and the world got more complicated. I actually encountered some members of subfamily Caprinae in a non-petting zoo setting. I encountered [...]

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The Blood to Make a Nation

It’s fun to talk about Palin and whether she is a religious lunatic (yes) a former member of a radical fringe separatist group (also yes) and whether she is remotely qualified to serve as our nation’s chief executive (clearly not). There are lots of exciting gender-themed conversations to have about whether the GOP talking points [...]

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Picking Through Memory, Picking Through Rubble

It seems so long ago that our nation of feeble-minded citizens was convinced that bombing Afghanistan would somehow balance the scales for 9-11. It seems like swirling mists of time cloud our ability to remember back to those days, before there was such a thing as Facebook. If only the ravaged nation of Afghanistan could [...]

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Welcome New Readers!

Writing up reviews of City Stages was a good idea. We here at Toxic Culture have gotten quite a bit of traffic from said entries. If you haven’t seen our reports yet, check ‘em out. And if you’re new here, whether lured by the City Stages reviews or by your relentless Google searching for “big [...]

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U.S. Military Goes (Even More) Gangsta’

So now we have the fresh new news from the ever-amazing Rep. Henry Waxman that the military is letting ever more convicted felons star in various branches of the armed services. This comes hot on the heels of news from 2006 that, well, the military was already lowering the bar. So now, I guess they [...]

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TMD: Too Much Dumbness

I heard a rumor that one time, a number of years ago, some dudes crashed some planes into some buildings here in the United States. Although it was said at the time that “everything has changed,” and “we now fully understand the nature of the new threat to the United States,” since there exists no [...]

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Rites of Spring

Ah, spring. Plenty of lazy, warm afternoons ahead with ample time to watch the pollen accumulate on your car, pose rabbits in front of weirdly personalized rest stop trees, and participate in our National Pastime. The news has slowed to a dull trickle as Sadr City gets locked down (but this is, evidently, proof that [...]

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All Washed Up

On January 3, the Natural Resources Defense Council won a big victory in court. U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ruled that because of dangers to migrating whales and dolphins, the Navy had to stay 12 miles off the coast when using a particular kind of mid-range sonar. She strongly criticized the [...]

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The Hustle

Comes this sad news from the New York Times. The vocation of “pool hustler,” once a viable option for greasy and withered ne’er do wells alike, is going the way of the dinosaur. Meanwhile, sales are up 8% over last year for this weekend, and Reverend Billy be damned, people are still going out [...]

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